Digital Solution Area Specialist - Security - French Speaker

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Responsibilities (Text Only)

- Sales Execution: Introduces how to enable digital transformation across workloads and collaborates with a virtual team to assess customer needs and proactively build an external stakeholder mapping to implement strategies that accelerate the closing of deals, drive consumption and licensing transactions, and grow the business with current and new Customers.
- Scaling and Collaboration: Collaborates on the planning, orchestration, and execution of end-to-end Security opportunities with a network of partners to cross-sell and up-sell products, solutions and services.
- Technical Expertise: Leads end-to-end Security conversations, shares best practices and key competitor knowledge across solution areas and evaluates opportunities to make recommendations on pursuit or withdrawal.
- Sales Excellence: Collaborates with extended sales team, partners, and marketing to conduct business analysis to pursue high-potential customers and develop a target list of potential business. Manages the end-to-end Security pipeline of the assigned territory. Conducts forecasting for assigned accounts and develops a portfolio and territory plan with guidance.
- Completes required training and obtains relevant product and role certifications aligned to the role and workload/industry.

Qualifications (Text Only)

Required/Minimum Qualifications

Fluency in French and English is essential

Demonstrated experience in technology-related sales or account management
OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND technology-related sales or account management experience
- OR equivalent experience
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
- Security-related sales or account management experience working with enterprise customers.
- Experience in Microsoft Security and/or Compliance products.
- Technical passion with good understanding of cloud security technologies - Threat protection (Endpoint security, E-mail security, Incident Response, etc.), Kill Chain, Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), Security Information and Event Monitoring (SIEM), Multi-Cloud Security, Identity and Access management.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Artificial Intelligence I-based security offering(s) such as Security Copilot as well as other related technologies such as Microsoft 365 Defender, extended detection and response (XDR) and Sentinel, or one or more related technologies such as Prisma Cloud, Crowdstrike, Proofpoint, Splunk is a plus.
Language Skills: French and English
Position is based in: Dublin, Ireland

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